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If you're visiting Churchill Downs, please visit the Churchill Downs Store, open during the spring, September, and fall race meets from gate opening time to 30 minutes after the last race. Located off the Paddock, inside the Gate 17 entrance, the Churchill Downs Store offers a wide array of officially licensed Kentucky Derby and Churchill Downs merchandise. To contact the store call (502) 636-4850 or (800) 59-DERBY. To shop online, click here.

The store is operated by the Kentucky Derby Museum, a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization.

Bond Holder to Tampa Bay Derby

Bond Holder will now point for the Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby on March 8, connections reported via social media Sunday.

The California-based sophomore was scratched from Saturday's Grade 2 Risen Star at Fair Grounds after experiencing a rough plane ride to New Orleans, and additional flight woes were cited as the reason for his unexpected redirection to Tampa.

"I didn't like flying, landed in FL," the colt said on his Twitter page.

"Bond Holder was not happy flying and was routed to Florida," according to a post on the Doug O'Neill stable's Facebook page. "Luckily, we had nominated him to the Tampa Bay Derby and so we will keep him in Florida to run there on March 8.

"Audible called, but that is horse racing!"

When a commenter suggested that Bond Holder seemed a bit "squirrely," Team O'Neill rose to the colt's defense.

"He isn't squirrely at all," the response read. "He has had an experience that he isn't forgetting. He has always been a cool and calm horse in our barn."

Bond Holder, who broke his maiden in the September 28 FrontRunner at Santa Anita, concluded 2013 with fourth-place finishes in the November 2 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and December 14 CashCall Futurity. The Risen Star was supposed to mark his three-year-old debut.

Owned by Reddam Racing, the Virginia-bred son of Mineshaft has compiled a record of 7-1-1-2, $366,000.